Arc A550M vs GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Arc A550M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arc A550M
+6043%
3686
GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition
60
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2007
Alchemist
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
900 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
635 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
20.32GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
2048
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16
RT Cores
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.760 GPixel/s
115.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.520 GTexel/s
7.373 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.686 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
G84
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
NB8P-GS
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
80 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
